It Won't Be Long, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...
Today the Braves won and the Falcons lost. I certainly thought that would be the other way around. I'm happy it turned out that way though. Of course it would have been better if they had both won, but with a Falcons loss they didn't have to go home and stop playing for the rest of the year.
Before today I had been pleasantly surprised with ESPN's coverage of the Braves in the NLDS. I don't like 3 people calling a baseball game, but Jeff Brantley, David Justice, and that other guy did a pretty good job. Although today all three of those guys were gone and ESPN brought in their regular Sunday Night Baseball crew of Joe Morgan and Jon Miller. These two guys are horrible. It is not unusual for me to watch Sunday Night Baseball during the season with the television on mute. Jon Miller is a bit too goofy for my taste. He also has a strange way of pronouncing foreign player's names. He doesn't try to do it with an accent, he still uses "white guy voice," but he over-annunciates. So Rafael Furcal comes out, RAH-FEE-EL FOR-CALL! Very annoying. Joe Morgan's mortal enemy must be silence. The man will not shut up. In my opinion the best announcers in baseball will shut up at the most important times and let the action speak for itself. This does not happen with Jon & Joe. If you didn't know, Joe Morgan was a member of the Big Red Machine in the 1970's. And if you did already know that, it would still be constantly reinforced by Joe himself during any game he announces.
As bad as Jon & Joe are, they don't even hold a candle next to Fox's Tim McCarver and Joe Buck. These guys are bad enough without being on Fox, but Fox feels the need to enhance their ineptitude with crazy graphics, unnecessary camera angles, and irritating sound effects. Watching a game on Fox is like having a nine-year old child whose on day 10 of a 5-day supply of Ritalin read you the boxscore.
Anyway, I hope the Braves win tomorrow. The game will be on Fox, so my mute button finger will be itchy.
Go Braves!!!
posted by James @ 10:57 PM
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I was watching one game (I can't remember if it was yesterday, it may have been Saturday) and they had a camera in the dirt, right in front of the batter. The picture was awful (kind of fish-eyed) and the quality made me think they had bought it at Radio Shack for about $40. It was bizarre.
Second topic. How do the "Braves Announcers" (Skip Carrey and those guys) keep from cursing on air?
The camera you are talking about is new this year. Fox unveiled it at the All-Star game. It is also the main thing I was referring to when I mentioned unnecessary camera angles. That little lipstick camera in the dirt in front of home plate adds absolutely nothing to the coverage.
To answer your question about the Braves announcers:
Skip cusses on the air occassionaly, but for the most part they are all professionals and Skip is the only one who seems like his holding back the big words at times.
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